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Also: Cuba: People: By occupation: Dancers / Women by occupation: Female dancers This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cuban dancers . It includes dancers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Danza Voluminosa is a professional dance troupe composed exclusively of obese dancers, founded by choreographer and dancer Juan Miguel Mas in 1996. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although originally faced with ridicule, the troupe has become more popular over decades of activity, and have even performed in the National Theatre of Cuba .
In Cuba, a popular dance known as Casino was marketed abroad as Cuban-style salsa or Salsa Cubana to distinguish it from other salsa styles when the name was popularized in the 1970s. Dancing Casino is an expression of popular social culture in Cuba and many Cubans consider casino a part of their social and cultural activities centering on ...
Pages in category "Cuban dancers" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Pedro Gomez (dance instructor) L. Joaquín La Habana; M. Malanga ...
The Cuban bolero dance originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century; [13] it does not owe its origin to the Spanish music and song of the same name. [14] In the 19th century there grew up in Santiago de Cuba a group of itinerant musicians who moved around earning their living by singing and playing the guitar.
The term "salsa" was coined by Johnny Pacheco in the 1960s in New York, as an umbrella term for Cuban dance music being played in the city at the time. [2] Salsa as a dance emerged soon after, being a combination of mambo (which was popular in New York in the 1950s) as well as Latin dances such as Son and Rumba as well as American dances such as swing, hustle, and tap.
Alicia Parla (1914 – October 6, 1998) was a Cuban rhumba dancer and hospital administrator who was called "the Queen of Rumba" by the press. Born into a strict middle-class Cuban family, she and her family moved to Miami when Cuba became politically turbulent in the 1920s.
Millie Donay (born Carmela Dante Di Stefano; February 23, 1934 – July 16, 2007) was an American professional Latin dancer, a pioneer of Mambo dance. [1]Her first partner (1950–1956) was Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar of the Palladium Ballroom.